Wow must have been flying by this post for a while now, I'll definately be joining, bought TS2 almost over a year ago and I've played it for about 2 hours total, god this steam update is going to take a long time

Although, I think Mathew is being right with the choice of game, as game with lower system requirements will mean more people can join in. So as long as that rule is followed it doesn't really matter which game we choose. I mean its just for some good fun

Although in this case it will be others who will have it as I am kinda unable to have a hang of this damn notebook keyboard's keys as few of them keep popping up on their sides (read I really want to hit whoever designed it at HP with a big hammer !!).

Good point what 6 or 7 turned up when I was there; but I enjoyed it frankly despite being umm fragged alot, however, if there were more people I am sure things would have been easier. Anyway, IMHO time may have been the issue behind not everyone showing up. Perhaps next time we can set time for bit later hours.

I think the fact that members of this site are spread around the whole doesn't make things easy to organize. Maybe TS should do a couple of small Left4Dead servers. It's easier to set-up groups of 4 people.

Indeed, the turnout was lower than expected. Plenty of people showed up, but most only stayed briefly. I think we may either have to aim for smaller sessions until the Steam group is well populated and active, or simply open the server to the public and make it more appealing for random individuals to join (preferred maps, respawn times etc.)

This was an experiment, and while things could have gone better, it wasn't entirely disastrous. We had a blast with the group who showed up and stuck around, and it served as a great learning experience for future events.

Thanks again to those who participated and we hope you'll join us again in the coming weeks.

First of all it was great fun as long as it lasted, although I was at the receiving end of it most of the time being a newbie at TF2

I am unsure why, but despite TF2's reasonably low system requirements, and with default settings it is pushing temperatures on this notebook through the roof (although I was getting very decent frame rates), while playing with you guys the other day, I ended up having to stop once GPU temperature crossed 80C and CPU temperature was 64C.

It shouldn't happen in my view, but it does, so I am going to transfer TF2 to my desktop, and see how things go there.

Hmm good point; but I think instead of giving away one 'big' prize; perhaps lots of 'smaller' prizes over a period of time make more sense. But anyway, personally I don't care about it much, as long as its fun thats all I would ask for.

I was Burger Train and i had lots of fun playing. Wish there was more people. I would have recruited my buddy who wanted to play but he had some internet issues that day. But I'm looking forward to the next meeting.

I was going to join in, but i was afraid that i would have fragged Matthew to a meaty pulp and he would have gotten mad and shut down the server... :wave:.....or I had two sick kids,anyway, whens the next one Matthew?

No worries red, Snailbarf slaughtered me plenty in your absence. We haven't set an official date yet and we're considering the use of a scheduling tool to better chart everyone's availability. The next gathering will probably be within two weeks, I imagine. More details will follow soon.

We intend to host the second event on Saturday, May 22 and we'll be posting more details on that soon. In the meantime, Julio and I plan to play TF2 this Friday night starting sometime around or after 10PM EST. Since it's just a minor affair, we'll likely play on a populated public server. If you're available, we'd love for you to join us.